Acknowledgements

The authors wish to thank, the discussants, rapporteurs and the
workshop participants for their ideas and insights which have gone into the
writing of this report. We also thank Haroon Shariff for meticulous recording of
the workshop proceedings. We are grateful to Professor BD Dhawan for his
valuable comments and useful suggestion on an earliar draft of this report.

1. Workshop papers are referred to only with author(s) name: rest
of the papers are referred to with author(s) name and year of publication.

2. The growth rate of agricultural output for Eastern Uttar
Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh as whole are taken from Kolavalli et al (1988) and for
India from Agricultural Production in India:state-wise and crop-wise data:
1949-50 to 1984-85; Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy, Bombay, February
1986.